Balbec is a new bottle that is only available on-site at the blendery.
After racking The Blue Book off of 500 lbs of NJ blueberries in a single red wine puncheon, we hand-destemmed 225 lbs of Malbec grapes and added the whole, uncrushed grapes to the puncheon to spontaneously referment and macerate on one-year-old spontaneously fermented golden ale for an additional eight months. Balbec technically contains trace amounts of local trifoliate citrus and chamomile from Wittgenstein’s prior transformative residency, but the Malbec and blueberries are dominant. The grapes are from California, so if we are ever to make this again we need to source (or plant) some local Malbec.